What Kind of Little Kitty Are You!

Something was wrong!

That was what Big Eater Bart thought.

No matter how he looked at it, something was wrong.

His fist had clearly hit the little runt in front of him. That was an iron fist capable of punching through five steel plates in one blow!

Why hadn't he even moved?!

After thinking it over, Bart suddenly reached a conclusion.

"Right, he must have used his Devil Fruit ability to block it!"

Bart comforted himself. "Otherwise, a punch like that to the head would definitely have killed him!"

However, when Bart took a closer look at the situation before him, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

Lynn had both hands in his pockets. There was no sign of him using any Devil Fruit ability, nor had he taken any defensive measures. He had simply taken Bart's punch head-on with his forehead!

Only then did the stunned Bart realize that his knuckles had shattered. Broken bone splinters had pierced through his skin, and his entire fist was drenched in blood.

A piercing pain surged through him like a tide, and Bart clutched his hand as he wailed.

He simply could not understand it. He had been the one to throw the punch at Lynn, yet his own fist had ended up shattered.

Could Lynn's head really be harder than his fist?!

Lynn looked at the howling Bart and slowly pulled both hands from his pockets. He said in a low voice,

"Second round. My turn."

In an instant, Lynn stepped forward and lunged, driving a straight punch into Bart's stomach!

Bang!

Bart felt his insides churn violently. His entire body seemed to twist out of shape as he flew backward.

That flight was no small matter. His enormous body caused plenty of trouble for the pirates farther down the street. More than a hundred people were packed together, unable to get out of the way.

"How strange."

Lynn frowned tightly.

The current situation further confirmed his guess. Kuro had made a huge mistake by choosing this place as their base.

In this terrain, not only could the pirates' numerical advantage not be put to use, it had even become a restriction on them.

Rather, this cramped terrain was far more suitable for Lynn to fight alone!

"No matter what Kuro's scheme is, I can't refuse a gift delivered right to my door."

Lynn raised his right hand and spread his fingers before rushing toward the fallen Bart.

Bart was still clutching his right hand and howling when he suddenly discovered that Lynn had lifted him with one hand and slung him over his shoulder.

Hero Skill: Astonishing!

Lynn did not expend much effort using this move. Compared to Zephyr and Garp, the small fry before him were hardly worth mentioning.

Carrying Bart's enormous body over his shoulder, Lynn took two steps forward and then leaped high into the air.

"Smash!"

With a furious roar, Lynn slammed Bart's massive body into the ground!

Boom!

A huge crater was smashed into the ground, and even some of the abandoned houses nearby were shattered by the impact.

The pirates near Bart's landing spot were also caught completely off guard by the blow, and the scene instantly descended into chaos.

After landing, Lynn casually tossed aside two pirates and continued forward while the pirates were in disarray.

He had not come here to wipe them all out.

For Makino's safety, he had to find Kuro as soon as possible.

Only after that would he have the energy to deal with the greatest trouble of this trip—

Who exactly was giving off that dangerous aura?

Lynn understood that whoever it was, they were not an opponent he could deal with easily. He had to eliminate every possible distraction!

While he was thinking, Lynn had already reached the middle of Fifth Street.

Compared to the entrance, the terrain here was more complicated, and more pirates were hiding here.

Lynn grabbed two unlucky pirates, smashed their heads together with Skull Splitter, and dealt with them at once without slowing his pace in the slightest.

He no longer had the patience to play games with Kuro.

"Kuro, Krieg, get your asses out here!"

Lynn's roar rang through the entire street, making the pirates around him feel as though their eardrums were about to burst.

Then he grabbed one man by the collar.

"Where's your captain?"

The man had intended to act tough, but the moment he began to refuse, Lynn hurled him away!

Bang!

The pirate was slammed directly into a wall, embedded so deeply that he could not even be pulled out.

Lynn grabbed another man and asked, "Where's your captain?"

This time, the pirate no longer dared to answer carelessly. He could only force himself to say, "I don't know either. After they gave their orders, they left directly..."

Before he could finish, a black shadow suddenly flashed past, and five wounds instantly appeared on the pirate's back!

Swish!

"The wounds... they're so hot..."

The pirate clutched Lynn's arm, struggled a few times, and then passed out.

Lynn naturally knew that when someone was cut by a sharp blade, the wounds would feel unnaturally hot.

As for who had attacked the pirate?

Lynn looked around and saw that the surrounding pirates had already begun fleeing for their lives.

Therefore, there could be no answer other than that man.

After all, only he could leave such a terrifying impression in the hearts of his subordinates.

The captain of the Black Cat Pirates, Hundred Plans Kuro!

His ultimate technique, "Death Scatter," was an indiscriminate attack unleashed with Silent Step. Using high-speed movement and the bladed Cat Claws on his hands, he could slaughter large numbers of enemies.

The flaw of this move was that it was so fast that even Kuro himself did not know what he had cut.

Whether ally or enemy, as long as they were within range, they were all targets of Kuro's attacks!

And when facing Lynn Barek, Kuro had been so cautious that he used Death Scatter without even showing himself!

That was also why the surrounding pirates were fleeing. After all, none of them wanted to get caught up in Captain Kuro's terrifying attack.

"So that's how it is?"

Feeling the aura moving at high speed around him, Lynn could not help raising an eyebrow.

"You knew those small fry couldn't deal with me, so you sent them to drain my stamina first. Then, taking advantage of the narrow streets, you planned to use Death Scatter together with a Seastone weapon to finish me off."

Lynn grinned. "Kuro, is this your plan?"

"That's right!"

Kuro's voice came from all around him.

Death Scatter was indeed incredibly fast. Not only was Kuro himself impossible to see, even his voice could not be identified as coming from any particular direction!

"With my Ten-Blade Cat Claws mixed with Seastone, Lynn Barek, just obediently die!"

Kuro, moving at high speed, was preparing to deliver Lynn a fatal blow.

However, a heel covered in frost suddenly appeared before Kuro's eyes.

"Huh?"

In an instant, Kuro froze.

He had only managed to let out that single questioning sound before Lynn's heel slammed viciously into his face!

Bang!

Kuro was kicked flying. His whole body smashed into the ground and bounced back up, then skipped across the ground like a stone on water, bouncing and falling, falling and bouncing, until he finally crashed into a wall and came to a complete stop.

The stunned expression remained on Kuro's face.

Without giving him time to react, Lynn suddenly rushed to Kuro's side, grabbed his collar with his left hand, clenched his right hand into a fist, and punched him in the face again and again!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Lynn spoke as he punched:

"Fisher Tiger, Zephyr, Garp..."

"Those who can trade a few moves with me are either remnants of the old era or legends of the new one."

"What kind of little kitty are you?!"

Every punctuation mark represented a pause.

And every pause represented a heavy punch!